Posted on 12/03/2010 8:02:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Just sit back and watch her go, because she’s running for the White House right now.
>Questions about Sarah Palin’s future political plans are ubiquitous. From the left and the right, political pundits wonder aloud if she’s really thinking about running for the office of president in 2012. And depending on the pundit, the questions over whether she will run are usually tied to reasons why she should or shouldn’t.
But missing in all this guesswork over Palin’s intentions and the weighing of the pluses and minuses of her possible candidacy is the simple fact that she’s already running for president, and so far, she’s beating Obama and the mainstream media at every turn.
While I’ve suspected that she was already running for some time, it dawned on me with near certainty after she released her “Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States” last week. Her willingness to mock Obama’s 2008 claim that he’d campaigned in “57 states” proved that she has absolutely no fear of running against him. It also showed that she meant what she said about running against Obama in 2012 when she told Barbara Walters she could beat Obama.
I believe she started running for the office on the first weekend of February 2010, when she stood before the Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and asked: “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working for you?”(It doesn’t seem a great stretch to reach back to 1980 and juxtapose this with then-candidate Ronald Reagan’s famous question about the Carter years: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”)
At that same Tea Party convention, the mainstream media seized on the fact that Palin had written speech notes on the palm of one of her hands before ascending the podium. Groups like ThinkProgress.org and media figures like Andrea Mitchell mocked Palin for this, so Palin simply mocked them back by showing up a few days later at a campaign stop for Texas Governor Rick Perry with the words “Hi Mom” written on the palm of her hand.
Since then, she’s continued to dismantle the assaults of the mainstream media while simultaneously taking Obama to task on point after point.
For example, she seized on Obama’s April 2010 statement that “the United States will not use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear country” as being indicative of his ignorance about nuclear weapons in the first place. She then mockingly added that it was just more proof of “the vast nuclear experience [Obama] acquired as a community organizer.”
More recently, she told Fox News that her reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, could soon be followed up by a sequel titled Barack Obama’s golf courses. The implication being that the current “commander in chief will have plenty of time on his hands after the 2012 elections.”
Counting her time on the national stage as a vice presidential candidate with John McCain, America has had over two years to watch Palin speak from the heart, while listening to Obama speak from a teleprompter. They’ve heard her relentless calls for a strong military, while watching Obama try to appease (instead of destroy) terrorists the world over. They’ve heard her defend the free market, while living with the ramifications of Obama’s stimulus package, nationalization of industry, and takeover of health care.
The American people have even seen a microcosm of a Palin-versus-Obama matchup via the 2010 midterm elections in which 30 of 43 of the House candidates she endorsed won, as did 7 of the 12 Senate candidates she supported. Moreover, those elections proved that while rank-and-file citizens largely support Palin’s worldview, they are rejecting Obama’s.
No wonder CBS News’ Nicolle Wallace said of Palin: “She is one of the shrewdest political figures in our country at this moment. She’s also one of the most electric.”
So while the pundits guess, stabbing blindly into the air in an attempt to come up with proof of whether Palin will or won’t run, the rest of us should just sit back and watch her go, because she’s running for the White House right now.
And if I had to place a bet on who wins in 2012, my money would be on Palin.
There are many of us who see a ray of hope with the thought that she’ll run for president but I also know that there are many out there (mostly libs I’m sure but possibly even some Repubs) who don’t like her. Probably cause she’s a talker - just watch her show - and she’s tough and she won’t play nice with the big dogs on the Hill. I think those types will do their best to make sure she does not get the GOP nod.
Maybe Sarah needs to tone it down a bit UNTIL she gets in the White House then let them see her teeth and hear her growl!
No.
I won't.
Don't..... oh no ............ MAKE IT STOP !
BUT leverage who WILL RUN.. But we have no one to run that compares with Sarah Palin
WronG.. there are several people that would/could do as good of a job as Sarah Palin..
More important then President is who we send to Congress..
The Pres. only spends what Congress gives him to spend..
The Pres only/merely signs the budget that Congress sends him..
The federal government Needs to be defunded..
At this point conservatives are looking very good for the primary. Palin is the frontrunner in both approval and in ranking, this sure beats having the conservative be some fantasy 5% guy.
democrat laws mandate 90% of government spending and spending increases. Heard of social security ,medicare etc?
For 130 years Democrat congresses have been passing laws that : mandate increasing spending, cripple private businesses, mandate bigger government, increase government power, take away our rights and freedom, authorize government agencies like the EPA, FEC , FCC etc.
But he media has most people saying it is Bush's fault and Republicans' fault.
Repeal all laws to 1890 = limited government.
Sunset all laws, making them have an expiration date.
Look at this. I have thought to myself that Sarah must have God on her side to have pulled off so many impossible feats. What are the odds that we would have someone named Palin stirring up so much interest at this time of uncertainty?
Palingenesis: from the Concise English Dictionary: “a new birth; reincarnation, a second creation, regeneration, unmodified inheritance of ancestral character, the new formation of a rock by re-fusion.” McCain wrought more than he realised. Look it up. I like the “unmodified inheritance of ancestral character.”
“At this point conservatives are looking very good for the primary. Palin is the frontrunner in both approval and in ranking, this sure beats having the conservative be some fantasy 5% guy. “
We have to break out a map because you need to pick up states to win the GOP primary. I can see Romney picking up all the big blue/purple states such as CA, NY, etc for ‘free’ because candidates like Palin, Huckabee and Barbour won’t have any appeal there but they will split up the vote and spend a lot of money to win the other red states. Romney will have all his money intact to focus on the other battleground states. It’s not going to be so easy.
Right now it is far too early to be looking at maps and trying to decide the race, the good news is that the conservative has consistently been 1, 2, or 3 in the frontrunner status, and is currently number one, we conservatives are in a very good place for 2012.
“Right now it is far too early to be looking at maps and trying to decide the race, the good news is that the conservative has consistently been 1, 2, or 3 in the frontrunner status, and is currently number one, we conservatives are in a very good place for 2012. “
We still have this red state/blue state problem. I remember when Reagan won NY. Republicans never recovered after HW Bush and Pat Buchanan’s speech at the convention.
Well in THIS case what she is wearing is PHOTOSHOP.
Sheesh!
“First she has to win the GOP primary and then we’ll see if she knows what she’s doing.”
A little late at that point, don’t you think?
For myself, as much as I want her to do well, I await her performance in interviews and debates leading up to the Republican nomination.
First she has to show she knows what she is doing, and THEN she will win the nomination.
I heard about that red state, blue state, Democrat/Republican thing, we still have elections, but we conservatives can be very happy to know that our candidate is currently leading, and has been at, or near the front, all along.
We conservatives are in the best position that we have been in in my lifetime, perhaps ever, unless Reagan was doing better at this point, which would not change the fact of how well positioned we are today.
AWR Hawkins has been reading somebody's tweets....LOL.
Correct.
She endorsed Benishek after the DNC pulled money out because they knew he would win? Why? Why would she endorse someone that is going to win, that in Romney-ism Johnny Come Lately stuff...
Now Michigan is lost by 4 counties, the rest of the state is red. If she can tear off the Iron Mountain District and Macolm County she gets MI IMHO....I ran this theory by a poltical wonk of some note, they thought I was spot on..
She is the Wayne Gretsky of Politics, she is threee moves ahead and sees things we don't.
And the Libs and RINO's are to stupid to see it, Thank G_d they are....
You gotta love Sarah, she excels at playing defense and offense simultaneously. That, my friends, makes her VERY Reaganesque. Most GOP politicians are only capable of doing one or the other and often not very well at that.
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